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Vladislav Illich-Svitych

1934 - 1966

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Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (Russian: Владисла́в Ма́ркович И́ллич-Сви́тыч, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; 12 September 1934 – 22 August 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladislav Illich-Svitych is the 191st most popular linguist (down from 179th in 2024), the 893rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 867th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vladislav Illich-Svitych ranks 191 out of 214. Before him are Lev Shcherba, George Perkins Marsh, Ziad Fazah, Kenneth Lee Pike, Ray Jackendoff, and Helmut Rix. After him are Daniel Everett, John Eliot, John Rupert Firth, Geoffrey Hull, Sture Allén, and Bo Ralph.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Vladislav Illich-Svitych ranks 473. Before him are Guillermo Sepúlveda, David Halberstam, Giuseppina Leone, Curtis Fuller, Evy Berggren, and Stanton T. Friedman. After him are Jimmy Garrison, Tom Heinsohn, Johnny Burnette, Alberto Bevilacqua, Ulf Schmidt, and Jagdish Bhagwati. Among people deceased in 1966, Vladislav Illich-Svitych ranks 204. Before him are Áron Tamási, Verna Felton, Charles Bassett, Néstor Guillén, Alma Cogan, and Alice Calhoun. After him are George Goulding, Claire McDowell, Maxfield Parrish, Knut Torell, Wallace Ford, and Robert Keith.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladislav Illich-Svitych ranks 893 out of 1,365. Before him are Nina Dumbadze (1919), Victoria Zdrok (1973), Artem Dovbyk (1997), Joseph Ruttenberg (1889), Anatoli Polivoda (1947), and Viktor Onopko (1969). After him are Yury Onufriyenko (1961), Isaac Schwartz (1923), Juliusz Schauder (1899), Dmytro Firtash (1965), Andrii Sybiha (1975), and John Kelly (null).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Vladislav Illich-Svitych ranks 8. Before him are Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Alexander Potebnja (1835), Iryna Farion (1964), and Zellig Harris (1909).

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